Stop Private Jet Expansion at Hanscom or Anywhere

Please stop expansion of Hanscom. I am from Concord.

Burlington

I agree with the above petition.

please stop expansion of Hanscom

Stop Private Expansion at Hanscom

Please stop this project and maintain the beauty and heritage of our communities.

I am firmly against increasing the number of garages/expansion at Hanscom Airfield. The expansion is counterproductive to area climate initiatives and would result in increased air and noise pollution, as well as increasing the inefficient use of fossil fuel energy!! There is no justification except to increase revenues and convenience to a select few.

In our 20 plus years we are appalled at the polluters from Hanscom and the air field. No efforts to realize it is too close to the schools, history and home.

This is a shameful unnecessary projet benefitting no man or creature. Those losing a lucrative project contract can go into the inner city and do some needed work there.

Dear Governor Healey, As a mother, scientist, and Lincoln resident, I strongly oppose the private jet expansion at Hanscom. I believe the project would negatively impact our community and contribute to climate change and environmental degradation at a time when we are trying to move toward net-zero. Further, I have concerns about the impacts of expansion on environmental justice communities. Climate change is an emergency that requires urgent action to move away from fossil fuel emissions. This project would increase fossil fuel emissions. Private jets have an outsized carbon footprint for the very wealthy. Right now, we should be acting to reduce private jet use, not expand it. Our children and grandchildren need a liveable future. We cannot accept profits for the few now that lead to a cascade of harmful effects for everyone else into the future. Paving and construction for this project would cause more runoff and reduce soil-based carbon storage potential and wildlife habitat. Runoff from paved surfaces of an airfield likely carries pollution, increasing the burden for wastewater treatment and creating potential for untreated water to contaminate local waterways. Paving and construction on open spaces means loss of a critical nature-based climate solution: when there are no longer plants to capture carbon from the atmosphere, they can no longer store a portion of that carbon in the soil. Building also causes habitat destruction, stressing wildlife and potentially leading to a loss of biodiversity that makes our ecosystems less resilient in the face of our changing climate. We as humans are interconnected members of our ecosystems; what hurts wildlife, ultimately hurts us. A portion of the communities around Hanscom Airfield are environmental justice populations, as defined by the state’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. These are communities already burdened by noise pollution and water quality concerns, including lead contaminat

I oppose the expansion of Hanscom. Concord will be adversely impacted and let’s try to maintain the character of a beautiful unique American town Please stop the expansion plan

It's time to realize the full impact air travel makes on our increasingly fragile environment and protect the future of the land and air; the plants, the animals, the children. We can't delay on this. climate change is real.

Please put this project to a halt for the sake of our environment.

The expansion is unnecessary. It is harmful to our national park, environment, health and quality of life.

Excessive noise, air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions are harming our health and environment. This expansion is unnecessary and is placing the wishes of the few over the common good.

I strongly oppose this expansion to provide luxury jet accommodation at the cost of enormous pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

MADNESS

Stop the expansion at Hanscom! We don't need the Green House Gases. We don't need the noise.

Have to keep up the pressure to reduce the effects of fossil fuel use.

Too much noise pollution